Best of 2011

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2011. 2,717 posts.

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Cool, but obscure Unix tools

A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install…

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Cracking Siri

เว็บตรง API แท้ รับทรูวอเลทไม่มีขั้นต่ำ สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกหนักจัดเต็มทุกเกม บริการ สล็อต จากค่ายหลัก ไม่มีล็อคยูส รวมเกมสล็อตเด็ด 2026 ไว้ในที่เดียว

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Accounting for Computer Scientists

Every educated person really ought to have a basic understanding of accounting. Just like maths, science, programming, music, literature, history, etc., it’s one of those things which helps you make sense of the world. Although dealing with money is not much fun, it’s an unavoidable part of life, so you might as well…

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Why Arabic is Terrific

I just finished a summer studying Arabic at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, an enjoyable adventure that I hope to write about in more detail later. MIIS offers a nine-week program in a bunch of languages and is just down the road from a grim military counterpart called the Defense Language Institute…